3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development (opensource.com)

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 13, 2015 @03:05AM from the just-use-the-php-wrapper dept.

An anonymous reader writes: While Grace Hopper's contributions to computing are remembered, celebrated, and built upon by her successors, COBOL itself is often dismissed as a relic of earlier era of computing. To a certain extent, that is true. Most of the COBOL being written today is for maintaining legacy code, not starting new projects. However, the language is still being updated, with COBOL 2014 being the most recent standard for the language, and there are still plenty of opportunities to apply for jobs that require COBOL experience. In an article on Opensource.com, Joshua Allen Holm highlights three open source projects that are keeping the language alive.

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Re:So you need not click the link: by oh_my_080980980 · 2015-10-13 03:35 · Score: 5, Informative

"awkwardly written mainframe software"

Glass houses....considering how poorly written apps are, you really want to use that canard. Mainframe programmers were real programmers - not today's cut & paste hack jobs.

FYI there's nothing wrong with using COBOL. It fills a need that other languages have not been able to fill.